The longest ever convoy to depart for Chernobyl from Ireland has left South Tipperary en route to Rosslare. Consisting of 14 truckloads of aid and 21 ambulances, the convoy stretched for nearly two miles. It will travel a total of 3,000 miles and pass through ten countries before reaching Chernobyl.
The convoy has been organised by the Chernobyl Children's Project and over 80 volunteers from all over the country are travelling with it to bring nearly 500 tons of aid.
The project's organiser Adi Roche said that this was the organisation's 19th convoy and already two and a quarter million Euros worth of aid has been brought to the victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which happened 16 years ago.
